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- Nicolae Ceausescu (1918 - 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He was also the country's head of state from 1967, serving as President of the State Council and from 1974 as President of the Republic, until his overthrow and execution in the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, part of a series of anti-Communist uprisings in Eastern Europe that year.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpouseElena Ceausescu(December 23, 1947 - December 25, 1989) (3 children)
- Children
- His execution was announced by a newscaster on (recently liberated) Romanian television with the following words: "We have wonderful news for you this Christmas day! The Anti-Christ is dead!"
- Dictator of Romania (1965-1989).
- He and his wife were captured by the army after an ill-fated attempt to flee Romania (their helicopter pilot abandoned them on a country road at gunpoint), tried for crimes against the state, found guilty and executed by an army officer with a submachine gun. When they were offered legal defense, they refused, insisting that they were exempt from the authority of a military court.
- President of Romania 1972-1989.
- His trial was shown on Austrian and Romanian television. His and his wife's wrists were bound by string, and soon after, there was a tape showing the corpse of Ceausescu (but not his execution). According to The King of Communism: The Pomp & Pageantry of Nicolae Ceausescu (2002), people who watched it on television applauded.
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